For the second night in a row, the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, descended into chaos as lines of cops clashed with crowds of protesters, rioters looted and set fires, vandals vandalized and opportunistic thugs took advantage of the situation to commit violent crimes.

Fox News host Megyn Kelly was covering the scene live during “The Kelly File” and had as a guest former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to discuss his take on things.

Prefacing his remarks by proclaiming, “This is an American tragedy,” Gingrich lamented how much race relations have decayed in this country, even after the election of the first black president and the service of two black attorneys general.

“Schools that don’t work, neighborhoods with no jobs, random violence, a sense of being powerless even though there is an African-American president,” Gingrich said, listing some of the legitimate reasons for the anger on display in some minority communities.

“Over 3,000 people have been shot in Chicago this year. They don’t get this kind of coverage, but over 3,000 people have been shot, over 500 killed in Chicago,” he continued.

Gingrich proceeded to note two important things that he thought might happen over the remaining course of the election season.

“One is, the country at large will not tolerate this kind of random violence. People will not tolerate looting, they won’t tolerate closing I-85, they won’t tolerate people burning things,” he said.

“On the other hand, most Americans I think would desperately love to fix the challenge of the inner city, and they know it’s not working,” he continued, once again referencing a young woman who had been seen raging earlier during the chaotic scene.

“Her anger wasn’t just about the problem of police violence; she has a life that has no future,” he stated. “She has a life where she’s gonna have a hard time getting a job, a hard time living in a safe neighborhood, a hard time being able to go out and get the education that she ought to be getting.”

“I think this is a place for America to have a serious dialogue and not just the usual back and forth politics, but whether we can get to that, I don’t know,” Gingrich concluded.

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Newt Gingrich was spot-on in his diagnoses of the problems plaguing American inner cities, and voiced out loud what many Americans have been thinking.

We can hope that violent outbursts like those in Charlotte and other cities will eventually give way to truly substantive conversations about the underlying issues that need to be tackled, as opposed to the usual tepid treatment of the symptoms.

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